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If i’m not mistaken they did both Cornucopia and Riding The Tiger at this year’s Roadburn – at least it said Satan and Tiger at the playlist – and the songs sounded awesome live!
A: I hope you don’t skip the band’s concerts because of their policy on COTF – you’d miss out on something great and their next album will surely be out on more formats.
Just finished the obligatory “listening with headset at full volume”..
I still think Cornucopia and Whole Lotta Diana are the best tracks on the album, but now my first impressions of Mr. Victim and Child Of The Future are changing. I feel a sense of motorik in Victim and a hidden grandiosity in COTF. With headset the quiet calm of Waiting takes hold too. Riding The Tiger has some of that wonderful Tristano groove, but i feel The Ozzylot is a bit one-dimensional opening track..
Still – the album is still growing on me. I still feel it’s wrong to call it a sucessor to LLM (that album being the best album from Motorpsycho since Trust Us)because the sheer epic magnitude of that album. But with that exclusion i feel that this could be the most complete album from the band since Phanerothyme. It’ll be very interesting to see what the next album will sound like – will it follow the tracks of LLM or COTF?
I’m still not completely satisfied with the artwork – it feel like a “letdown” (if one can call Hiortøys work that) – but his work with the band has always been great.
GBD: I couldn’t agree more. Also – who says that a artwork – which every serious record really is – must be available for everyone? I’m not against the legal download thing, but when the band release an album on vinyl it’s meant to be bought on vinyl – not downloaded from a site that will distribute the record without giving the band the money they deserve.
The new album has Whole Lotta Diana – AC/DC – Whole Lotta Rosie?
AC/DC – Let There Be Rock
The Allman Brothers Band – S/T
Blue Öyster Cult – Secret Treaties
Captain Beefhart – Stricktly Personal
Fripp and Eno – Evening Star
Grand Funk Railroad – Live Album
Grateful dead – Anthem of the Sun
Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
Joni Mitchell – Heijira
Kraftwerk – Autobahn
MC5 – High time
Sonic Youth – Confusion is Sex
The Steve Miller Band – Children of the Future
Sun Ra – Angels and Demons at Play
support the few remaining record stores..
First impressions of Child Of The Future:
The cover is a Kim Hiorthøy – classy, but not as epic as some of his other work. Nevertheless – this seems to be an album where the more epic songs have been excluded in favour of more straightahed rock songs – a barracuda born from the LLM sessions, perhaps.
Side 1, track 1: The Ozzylot (Hidden In A Girl)
The first song of the album with a thumping beat from the boys and a nice riff from snah – a quick and effective rock song. Snahs guitarwork is top notch troughout the album – playful, energetic and emotional.
Side 1, track 2: Riding The Tiger
Wonderful and spacey bass opening – i suddenly understand the band’s pleased outburst after the sessions with Albini and their satisfaction with the groovy recordings. Very riffing ‘n’ rhythmic bass and drums. The guitar is taking the back seat in the beginning – letting the drums and bass do the most work. Snahs solo starts behind a great bass riff from Bent.
Side 1, track 3: Whole Lotta Diana
A skipping beat jumpstarts the song with a rough vocal track kicking the music – the chorus let rip and we’re off with – yet again – a almost funky rhythm track (it kick and rock). We’re definetely back in the seventies power rock era previously visited in Barracuda – but this time they’re furious!..
..The instrumental mid-section is amazingly funky – the band switches gears and head down to jam the hell out of their equipment.Side 2, track 1: Cornucopia (..or Satan, uh ..Something)
The song starts up with some quiet jazz piano, but soon escalates into a slow rocker. I don’t know why, but the piano bits and the guitar reminds me of Thin Lizzy..
..perhaps because it’s both slow and rocking – the way Lynnott made his mark? Again, Snah is in top form – but the interplay of Kenneth and Bent is amazing. There’s lots of jawdropping details, but one can keep up with the beat. Right now it feels that the songs gradually gets better – this is the best one so far.Side 2, track 2: Mr. Victim
Uh, it was too good to last – it’s not better than Cornucopia. That’s not saying it’s bad. It’s a straight rock song from the same mold as The Ozzylot (the school of Blissard and the AADAP).
Side 2, track 3: The Waiting Game
Wow – talk about taking it down a notch! It’s a acoustic and fragile song and i suddenly get a feel like i had when i heard Stalemate on AADAP: that dark and claustrophobic sense of loneliness – but enjoying it. At the end more vocals and guitars tune in – adding the sound of a freak version of Beatles..
Side 2, track 4: Child Of The Future
The title track is settling back into the trend of the album: a driving rhythm section with the guitar adding details settling into, not against, the rhythm.
Conclusion – the album seems like a sidestep to the LLM which i personally thinks is the band’s fourth best album. I feel like it’s a evolution of BH/BC, but with a stronger sound from a cohesive unit and details from their 96-97 period. Right now it’s 7.0/10.0.
